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$70 Million Settlement Now Final For Central Coast Property Owners in Oil Pipeline Spill Easement Class Action Against Sable Offshore Corp. And Subsidiary

A $70 million settlement for private property owners with easements for the oil pipeline formerly owned by Plains All American is now final. The appeal period for the class action settlement expired on October 17, 2024, and settlement payments will be made in the first half of November.  The settlement resolves all class claims brought by the property owners. (Grey [ More... ]

By |2024-11-05T10:43:53-08:00November 4th, 2024|Class Actions, Firm News, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions, Uncategorized|
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Lawsuit claims Santa Barbara school officials failed to protect students from sexual predators

A TV news segment discusses a lawsuit filed against the Santa Barbara Unified School District, Santa Barbara Charter School, and County Superintendent of Schools Susan Salcido with attorney Barry Cappello. The lawsuit, filed September 20, 2024, alleges negligence in protecting minor students from sexual predators. To view the news report, click here.

By |2024-10-31T14:23:10-07:00October 31st, 2024|News|
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Judge Rules Property Owners Adjacent To Montecito Country Club Must Remove Landscaping They Placed in Easement And Restore Property To Previous Condition

A Santa Barbara Superior Court judge ruled July 30 that property owners adjacent to Montecito Country Club must pay for the costs of removing landscaping they installed without permission on an easement owned by the country club and restore the property to its previous condition. (Montecito Country Club, LLC vs. Kevin Root, et. al., Case No.: 21CV02227, July 30, 2024) [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:20:56-07:00September 26th, 2024|News|
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Santa Barbara School District And Others Sued Over Alleged Negligence in Protecting Students From Sexual Predators

A lawsuit filed September 20 against the Santa Barbara Unified School District, Santa Barbara Charter School and Santa Barbara County Superintendent of Schools Susan Salcido alleges negligence in protecting minor students from sexual predators. The legal action stems from previous filings claiming repeated sexual misconduct by coaches and teachers, and the recent discovery that Charter School teacher Steven Schapansky secretly [ More... ]

By |2025-01-07T13:42:04-08:00September 23rd, 2024|News|
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New Associate at Santa Barbara Law Firm Cappello & Noël LLP

Mandy Moua is now an associate at the Santa Barbara law firm of Cappello & Noël LLP. Moua joined the firm in 2018 as a paralegal and became an associate upon passing the California State Bar exam in 2024. Moua conducts legal research, drafts legal documents and assists attorneys in all stages of litigation for the firm’s cases. “Mandy’s is [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:20:56-07:00May 20th, 2024|News|
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PCBT: $70M Refugio oil spill deal gets tentative OK

Nine years after the 2015 Refugio Oil Spill along the Santa Barbara coastline, a federal judge has granted preliminary approval of a $70 million class action settlement to nearly 90 property owners. U.S. District Court Judge Philip Gutierrez issued his ruling May 1. It was announced May 9. If finalized in September, the settlement will be paid by Houston-based Sable [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:30-07:00May 17th, 2024|Firm News, News|
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Cappello Foundation Donates $100,000 To UCLA School of Law’s Cappello Trial Advocacy Scholarship Fund

When Barry Cappello, managing partner at Santa Barbara’s Cappello & Noël LLP, was attending law school in the 1960s, there were no trial advocacy programs at major law schools. Back then, law schools didn’t teach students how to try cases. They had to learn once they became a lawyer. Cappello and his foundation have donated over $3 million to his [ More... ]

By |2025-01-07T13:45:05-08:00December 13th, 2023|News|
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Cappello & Noël LLP Adds Attorney Andrew Dickerson

Andrew Dickerson is now an associate at the Santa Barbara law firm Cappello & Noël LLP. Dickerson previously worked at the firm as a paralegal and became an associate upon passing the California State Bar exam in 2023. Dickerson’s practice includes civil litigation, and class actions/mass torts. He is involved in all of the firm’s cases, from intake to preparing [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:20:57-07:00September 20th, 2023|Firm News, News|
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‘Reality’ Intrudes into Safety Valves Proposal for Refugio Pipeline – SB Independent

If not for the seriousness of the matter at hand — the eventual restarting of Line 901, the pipeline that caused the Refugio Oil Spill in 2015 — the arguments this morning at the Planning Commission over installing 16 automated safety valves could have simply been appreciated for the artful rhetoric rolled out by the participating attorneys. Ultimately, what seemed [ More... ]

By |2025-01-07T13:42:22-08:00April 29th, 2023|News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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Edison’s Thomas Fire demurrers sustained, plaintiffs can amend/Daily Journal

Edison demurred to the class action claims on the grounds that a utility cannot be held liable to third parties for purely economic loss resulting from a public disaster, according to a 2019 ruling in Southern California Gas Leak Cases. Highberger on Tuesday overruled the demurrer as to claims of inverse condemnation, private nuisance and trespass, while sustaining with leave [ More... ]

By |2023-03-23T09:55:33-07:00March 23rd, 2023|Class Actions, Firm News, News, Thomas Fire & Montecito Mudslides Class Actions|
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